Hello,
Yesterday I suddenly noticed my CPU temps in idle were >90c. My PC turned very slow, I found out that my CPU was thermal throttling to under 0,54 Ghz.
I heard a loud and heavy scratching noise around my cooler and PSU, I replaced them both just to be sure the PSU was not losing too much power or short-cutting as the PSU was 6 years old.
So after replacing the aio watercooler and the PSU I couild start the PC up again but now the monitor shows ''no signal''. All the fans are spinning at their max and the lights on the drivers and fans work. So re-applied thermal paste again, tried to boot without GPU, re-seated the CMOS- Battery, different drives, tested the heatsink and motherboard fans and tested all the above in other cases. They work. All weird sounds went away though.
I must mention as the case is 6 year old, one MB fan already failed years ago. I replaced that one.
So after reading the sticky. I'm down to two things. The MB or the CPU.
The socket, the CPU and the MB don't show any visible damage and I don't hear any beep codes. Pure guesswork would tell me it's either the CPU or the MB but I'm not sure anymore.
Help would be very appreciated!
The specs;
Intel I7 2600K
Nvidia GTX 580
New PSU - Corsair 750W
Kingston HyperX Savage 120 GB + WD Blue 2 GB
It was a OEM pc and this is the MB; https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Acer-Mb-sgr09-002-Aspire-Predator-G7760-Lga1155-Motherboard-With-BP/2018466485
Yesterday I suddenly noticed my CPU temps in idle were >90c. My PC turned very slow, I found out that my CPU was thermal throttling to under 0,54 Ghz.
I heard a loud and heavy scratching noise around my cooler and PSU, I replaced them both just to be sure the PSU was not losing too much power or short-cutting as the PSU was 6 years old.
So after replacing the aio watercooler and the PSU I couild start the PC up again but now the monitor shows ''no signal''. All the fans are spinning at their max and the lights on the drivers and fans work. So re-applied thermal paste again, tried to boot without GPU, re-seated the CMOS- Battery, different drives, tested the heatsink and motherboard fans and tested all the above in other cases. They work. All weird sounds went away though.
I must mention as the case is 6 year old, one MB fan already failed years ago. I replaced that one.
So after reading the sticky. I'm down to two things. The MB or the CPU.
The socket, the CPU and the MB don't show any visible damage and I don't hear any beep codes. Pure guesswork would tell me it's either the CPU or the MB but I'm not sure anymore.
Help would be very appreciated!
The specs;
Intel I7 2600K
Nvidia GTX 580
New PSU - Corsair 750W
Kingston HyperX Savage 120 GB + WD Blue 2 GB
It was a OEM pc and this is the MB; https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Acer-Mb-sgr09-002-Aspire-Predator-G7760-Lga1155-Motherboard-With-BP/2018466485